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October Book Club Choice: ‘Buffalo Soldier’ by Tanya Landman

'Buffalo Soldier' by Tanya Landman Image: www.goodreads.com
NEWS / 1 October 2015

'Buffalo Soldier' by Tanya Landman is the 2015 winner of the Carnegie Medal. It is the choice for this month's Book Club. Borrow the book now from the Library and meet up on Monday, 2nd November in the Library at 1.30pm to discuss.

"What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army?

A desperate one, that's who.

World been turned on its head by that big old war, and the army seemed like the safest place to be, until we was sent off to fight them Indians. And then? Heck! When Death's so close you can smell his breath, ain't nothing makes you feel more alive." [Reference: www.goodreads.com]

 

Borrow the book now from the Library and meet up on Monday, 2nd November in the Library at 1.30pm to discuss. Read the interview with Tanya Landman in The Guardian, 30th June 2015, for her inspiration for this story.

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